{"id":137412,"date":"2026-06-02T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-201930"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:00:00","slug":"super-yooka-laylee-kart-playtest-listing-appears-on-steamdb-after-dev-teases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/06\/02\/super-yooka-laylee-kart-playtest-listing-appears-on-steamdb-after-dev-teases\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Super Yooka-Laylee Kart Playtest&#8217; Listing Appears On SteamDB After Dev Teases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6c6df8addf44a\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6c6df8addf44a\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"6c6df8addf44a\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Super Yooka-Laylee Kart\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6c6df8addf44a\/super-yooka-laylee-kart.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6c6df8addf44a\/super-yooka-laylee-kart.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Super Yooka-Laylee Kart\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/4809050\/\">SteamDB<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/yooka-laylee\">Yooka-Laylee<\/a> dev Playtonic Games has been <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/playtonicgames.com\/post\/3mmylriapcq2v\">teasing an announcement<\/a> on social media over the past couple of days, and now a listing for &#8216;Super Yooka-Laylee Kart&#8217; playtest has appeared via SteamDB (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/2026\/06\/super-yooka-laylee-kart-page-appears-on-steamdb\">Gematsu<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The listing includes art and a logo, suggesting that <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/playtonicgames.com\/post\/3mna562573x2j\">the studio&#8217;s recent teases<\/a> (including the couplet <em>&#8220;Collecting quills is far too slow, There may be faster ways to go&#8230;&#8221;<\/em>) are indeed pointing to a racing game.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no official word as yet, and therefore no confirmation on what platforms this may come to if it is Playtonic&#8217;s next project.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"2b1021383ace6\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Super Yooka-Laylee Kart\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2b1021383ace6\/super-yooka-laylee-kart.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2b1021383ace6\/super-yooka-laylee-kart.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"516\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Super Yooka-Laylee Kart\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\">Here&#8217;s the logo that appears in the listing \u2014 <em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/4809050\/\">SteamDB<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you&#8217;re unfamiliar, SteamDB is a website and tool that tracks all publicly available data on Steam, including behind-the-scenes stats and uploads.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-bsky-post\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/playtonicgames.com\/post\/3mmylriapcq2v @ 2026-06-02T14:38:38+01:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:cszak2dnc6gpo7ui2zm7ot7b\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mmylriapcq2v\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreiff7sgocrz4zbfyjc2yd6iyqlmdq6nap24lkkq35niov3xwcn5q5i\">\n<p>A green reptile, a purple bat,<br \/>\nAre plotting something&#8230; fancy that!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:cszak2dnc6gpo7ui2zm7ot7b?ref_src=embed\">Playtonic (@playtonicgames.com)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:cszak2dnc6gpo7ui2zm7ot7b\/post\/3mmylriapcq2v?ref_src=embed\">2026-05-29T13:00:46.090839313Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If true, Super Yooka-Laylee Kart would follow last year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/yooka-replaylee\">Yooka-Replaylee<\/a>, which reworked the team&#8217;s first game and Kickstarter hit for modern platforms. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2026\/04\/boom-yooka-replaylees-60fps-switch-2-performance-mode-is-finally-here\">An update in April<\/a> brought 60fps performance to the Switch 2 version.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that, the team released a well-received side-scrolling sequel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/yooka-laylee_and_the_impossible_lair\">Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair<\/a>, in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reckon this is legit? Are you in the market for a Yooka-Laylee kart racer? Dreaming of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/diddy_kong_racing\">Diddy Kong Racing<\/a> spiritual successor, perhaps? Let us know below.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/related-articles:199796,188719 @ 1780423443 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: SteamDB Yooka-Laylee dev Playtonic Games has been teasing an announcement on social media over the past couple of days, and now a listing for &#8216;Super Yooka-Laylee Kart&#8217; playtest has appeared via SteamDB (thanks, Gematsu). The listing includes art and a logo, suggesting that the studio&#8217;s recent teases (including the couplet &#8220;Collecting quills is far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}